Many of the principle weapons that the Nazis used during World War II had their first trial in combat in Spain
ADAM HOCHSCHILDRonald Reagan perfected the subtler version long ago by talking about “welfare mothers” – a code phrase for people of colour.
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In the form of man-made global warming; one can’t be neutral at such a moment. It’s like claiming to be neutral if you’re living in Germany in 1933.
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The Messerschmitt 109 fighter plane for example, the Stuka dive bomber, the 88 millimeter artillery piece, which could be used both for antiaircraft purposes and also shelling on the ground.
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Things have gotten openly more extreme in the last few years. I was lecturing in Hungary, whose prime minister, Victor Orban, is an example of this trend.
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No one has better summed up the American appetite for spectacle, the link between sports and politics, and the absolute madness of George W. Bush’s Iraq War.
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And yet the world we live in-its divisions and conflicts, its widening gap between rich and poor
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Ditto for her countryman the great playwright Athol Fugard.
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I can certainly sympathize with writers who don’t want to put themselves or their loved ones at risk.
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All over Budapest, statues have been replaced, museum exhibits have been redone, to turn ethnic Hungarians, not Jews, into the prime victims of the Germans during World War II.
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Even [Ernst] Hemingway, perhaps the most intentionally non-political of American writers, became passionately partisan during the Spanish Civil War.
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The first World War in so many ways shaped the 20th century and really remade our world for the worse.
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Work is hard. Distractions are plentiful. And time is short.
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Someday, I have no doubt, the dead from today’s wars will be seen with a similar sense of sorrow at needless loss and folly as those millions of men who lie in the cemeteries of France and Belgium
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So people at the time really saw fascism not just as an evil but as an aggressive evil that seemed to be spreading.
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In Canada, the U.S. and most of Europe it may be easy to take political stands, this is something for which you can be forced to pay with your life, or your freedom, in many other parts of the world, from Iran to Russia to Pakistan to China.
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You know, by 1936, Hitler was already talking very loudly about his desire to expand to the east.
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